Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Part 22 - Develop a Role Model

The term role model generally means any "person who serves as an example, whose behaviour is emulated by others".

Research is showing that role models are having a profound influence on the career decisions that people make. Therefore they seem to enhance the desire to become entrepreneurs and multimillionaires.

In my own research, which concerned the identification of future research topics in entrepreneurship, the variable called role model is shown to be one of the most important issues in the creation of new entrepreneurs.

Role models are increasingly being identified as a major influencing factor in explaining why people make the choice of pursuing an entrepreneurial career.

Autobiographies and life stories of successful entrepreneurs are serving as, not only a source of motivation and inspiration to prospective entrepreneurs, but also as an indication of what strategy should be used to achieve success within various environments.

Already successful entrepreneurs also enhance people's desire to become entrepreneur and experience the entrepreneurial self-efficacy of individuals and, ultimately, entrepreneurial independence.

If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur you need to take action now and find yourself some worthy candidates. You can look for potential people in magazines, books and among the people you know. Make a point of searching widely, identifying candidates and studying them so that you can choose the best role model that you can really admire and look up to.

You can even have more than one role model. You should preferably select a role model to which you have easy access. The person that you really admire in your environment that you can consult and possibly adopt as a mentor, with their permission of course, that can guide you through the process of becoming a millionaire.

You should also choose a guru from somebody that you respect and admire, but who is not within your environment, that is a highly successful entrepreneur, such as Bill Gates or Richard Branson. Read a lot of biographies and make your choice.

Reading the biographies of these amazing people can be highly educational and a great inspiration to yourself. In many cases they can also assist you in formulating your success strategy.

Read widely about the people involved in your field to become highly successful and learn from their experiences so that you do not have to reinvent the wheel. You can gain an enormous amount of valuable lessons and information from reading about their personalities, characteristics, and how they manage to overcome the difficulties and problems that they manage to solve in their path to success.

You will be truly amazed at how powerful a good teacher can be. Make sure you choose the right person and not somebody that could have a negative influence on your ethics, your behaviour and your personality.

Never stop reading about success. Steep yourself in a success environment. Mix with successful people and their success will rub off on you. Be willing to follow their example and take their advice and you will go a long way to shortening the journey to becoming a millionaire.

One particular observation that I made regarding online businesses or Internet businesses is that the successful ones follow system and guided by a mentor.

Develop the habit of having a Role Model. Get inspiration and guidance from your role models, learn from their roadmaps and strategies, and you'll be well on your way achieving success.

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